New A.I. Trailer Hits the Web

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By Scott B.

A new and slightly more extended (although still pretty teaser-ish) trailer for Steven Spielberg's A.I. has been released, and is available on the the Web at CountingDown.com.

Here's a brief description of the trailer itself. After the logos for Warner Brothers and DreamWorks, a white screen comes up. On it is a box that reads: "WARNING: Do not activate the seven word code if you have any doubts about your feelings." Then: "The code is permanent and irreversible." That's followed by a recitation of the (apparent) code words in voice-over by Haley Joel Osment as the words themselves appear in screen. Also in voice-over can be heard the voice of William Hurt, proposing the building of a robot child. The closed eyes of Osment appear on screen as the voice-overs continue. The eyes slowly open, revealing them to be a gorgeous blue that stands out against the stark white of the screen. Then the eyes dissolve away and the words "This Summer" appear on screen. Those words disappear into an image of Osment approaching a doorway; toddling up alongside him is a walking Teddy Bear &#Array; over this, Osment's voice says "Please make me a real boy." That image disappears into the words "Discover the next step in evolution," which in turn becomes an image of Osment shot through the eyehole of a (robot?) mask. The shot pulls out as the mask fills the screen then fades away, leaving the unearthly blue eyes in their place. The eyes fade away into the familiar silver-and-black A.I. logo from the previous trailer and one sheets, followed by the tag line: "His love is real. But he is not."

As the above description indicates, the trailer, while visually striking, doesn't reveal too much (although that "real boy" line certainly suggests that this movie will be exactly what it was intended to be when Stanley Kubrick proposed it &#Array; a science fiction version of Pinocchio). One of the more interesting aspects of the trailer is the music used: never having heard it before, I assume that it's a bit of John Williams' score. What's sort of fascinating about this very lovely music is how much it sounds like certain music cues composed by Vangelis for Blade Runner. Not that I'm accusing Williams of plagiarism (if it is indeed even his score), but it's sort of amusing that the music in the trailer is reminiscent of the music for another film that just happens to be the question of humanity in artificial intelligence.